Fire burns 3 homes on Eastside

People who live on Jacksonville's eastside say these types of fires happen all too often. Around 5:00am a vacant home on Odessa Street caught fire and spread to two homes next to it.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

A fire burned three homes early Friday morning in east Jacksonville.

The homes are located on Odessa and Palmetto streets, which is north of the Mathews Expressway and west of the Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway.

A neighbor woke up about 5 a.m. to the brightness of the flames and called 911.

"I just got home from work. I was laying in bed and rolled over and I could see a super bright reddish light; knew it wasn't daylight yet, came outside and the houses were on fire next to me," said Charlotte. "Very scary not knowing if anyone was inside or not."

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